Facts, Figures

• Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
• SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
• Contractors, 349
• Students, 889
• Post doctoral researchers, 427

Budget, FY 2012
Approx. $2.2 billion

• 57% Weapons programs
• 9% Nonproliferation programs
• 7% Safeguards and Security
• 8% Environmental Management
• 4% DOE Office of Science
• 4% Energy and other programs
• 11% Work for Others

Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property

More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof including

• 1,280 buildings (11 nuclear facilities)
• 268 miles of roads (100 paved)
• 34 miles of electrical lines
• 63 miles of gas lines
• power plant

Replacement value of $5.9 billion

• 67% male, 33% female
• 44% minorities
• 67% university degrees
• 26% hold undergraduate degrees
• 18% hold master’s degrees
• 23% have earned a PhD

R&D 100 awards since 1978: 124
E.O. Lawrence Awards: 31
Seaborg Medal
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics: Frederick Reines

Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.

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